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[quote=FPYCparent]Coming off of years at The St. James and Paramount (and no prior club experience), I would look at where the teams practice.  You are looking at two or three practices a week after school.  We only steered our player towards clubs that made logistical sense for our family.

As an example, a club like Metro (Travel), which only had practices in DC and Maryland last season, ultimately didn't make sense for us coming from western Fairfax County.  Same goes for clubs in Ashburn are "farther" into Loudoun, knowing that we we pass practice locations for clubs like Vienna/DMV Elite (Chantilly) and Virginia Juniors (Herndon).

I also wouldn't be too concerned right now about only trying out for a "regional" team.  Clubs that field multiple teams aren't going to have exclusive tryouts for each, in my experience.  Tryout weekends are going to be a madhouse, and all potential players for a particular age group will start off together.  Eventually, there will be some separation, but I can only imagine that a club will take the top [i]X[/i] players it can to fill [i]Y[/i] number of teams.

As tryouts get closer, the clubs will start publishing what competitions they plan to attend.  I suspect that even "regional" teams from our immediate area could venture to Richmond (Volley by the James), Hampton (M-APL), Raleigh (M-APL), York (M-APL, I think), and Philadelphia (NEQ), and other events, so any 'regional' label may only mean that you aren't getting on a plane ... but you could end up on the road for several hours each way for a few weekends.

Here are some clubs that I haven't seen listed in this thread that may be worth checking:

Blue Ridge
American
Vienna Elite
Dulles Youth
No Panic
Tier One
VAVA[/quote]

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